I don't know how old we were but we were living on 15th Street inSedalia so I must have been around seven which would mean Red was
eightand Bill was nine. When we were scouring the town we saw theadvertisement at the movie featuring "G Men" and we wanted
above allelse to go see this movie. I believe the Saturday Matinee
cost 5 centsso we needed 15 cents in order for all three of us to go. Weimmediately started looking for trash piles in the alleys. When
wefound a pile we would ask the people living there for a job hauling
thetrash off. We would start off asking 15 cents to haul the
trash butusually settled for a nickel. We had lined up enough work
for 20 centsand that meant three movie tickets and splitting a popcorn three
ways.We were excited and headed home to get our old wobbly wheeled redwagon. We were too for from the city trash dump to do
the jobs so wedone what we had done before. We hauled it and dumped it in our
backyard there on 15th. street. We worked all day hauling
that trash butwe had our 20 cents so we could go to the movie next day.Marie knew we had made some money and she shook us down. She foundour 20 cents and made us go to the corner store and buy a cake of
P& Gsoap. That soap cost us 10 cents. Now if that wasn't bad enough
shehad our tub of bath water drawn from the cistern when we got home.
Sherounded up the other boys and we all had to take a bath. Billfirst--Red second--me third--charles fourth--Johnny Carl fifth--andRichard sixth. Mary Opal was to little to bathe in a tub.
I can justimagine how slick poor Richard must have been after his bath.
he-he.We took our remaining dime and bought penny candy from the fellow
whosold it from his living room a few blocks away. We never
got to seethat movie.